Bill Text: NY S07783 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the prohibition of the slaughter of race horses and race horse breeding stock; provides that an owner shall not be liable for a violation related to such prohibition if such owner can demonstrate that there is proper documentation of a transfer of ownership.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2022-02-24 - SIGNED CHAP.105 [S07783 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S07783-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7783

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 11, 2022
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        Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets  law,  in  relation  to  the
          prohibition  of  the  slaughter of race horses and race horse breeding
          stock

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 382 of the agriculture and markets
     2  law,  as added by a chapter of the laws of 2021 amending the agriculture
     3  and markets law relating to the prohibition of  the  slaughter  of  race
     4  horses  and  race horse breeding stock; amending the racing, pari-mutuel
     5  wagering and breeding law relating to requiring race horses to be micro-
     6  chipped; and amending the tax law relating to gifts for thoroughbred and
     7  standardbred race horse aftercare,  as  proposed  in  legislative  bills
     8  numbers S. 1442-B and A. 4154-B, is amended to read as follows:
     9    6. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each and every owner of
    10  a  race  horse  that  has competed in New York state on or after January
    11  first, two thousand twenty-two, or any other  horse  used  for  breeding
    12  purposes in New York state on or after January first, two thousand twen-
    13  ty-two,  shall not be liable for any violation of this section[, unless]
    14  with respect to such horse if such owner can demonstrate that  there  is
    15  proper documentation of a transfer of ownership[, and that transfer must
    16  be] to a party with no financial or familial relationship to the owner.
    17    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    18  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2021  amending  the  agriculture  and
    19  markets  law relating to the prohibition of the slaughter of race horses
    20  and race horse breeding stock; amending the racing, pari-mutuel wagering
    21  and breeding law relating to requiring race horses to  be  microchipped;
    22  and  amending  the  tax law relating to gifts for thoroughbred and stan-
    23  dardbred race horse aftercare, as proposed in legislative bills  numbers
    24  S. 1442-B and A. 4154-B, takes effect.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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